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Pedersen Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE | $40,000 |
| MUTUAL GROUND | $32,230 |
| KENDALL CTY FOOD PANTRY | $11,000 |
| MARKLUND HOME | $10,000 |
| JACLYN STRONG FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| PROJECT LIFT | $5,988 |
| LEE & BEULAH MOOR CHILDREN'S HOME | $3,000 |
| ADOPT A CLASSROOM | $750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $579k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
19 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- JHJESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $241k · revenue +99%
- MGMUTUAL GROUND INC8× · 2018–2025 · $225k · revenue +90%
- COCASA OF KENDALL COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $187k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- MHMOLLY'S HOUSE INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -62%
- BLBETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $18k
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF EL PASOone grant, 2023 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide a voice in a court for abused and neglected children through volunteer court and appointed advocates.
Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.
Solicit, train & direct activities of court-appointed volunteer advocates for children in cases involving child abuse and neglect. assist in direct expense needs of individual children in court-appointed cases.
Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. our team of trained volunteers,staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law…
Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.
Assist abused children
The mission of Family Services is to help children, adults, and families throughout Tulare County heal from violence and thrive in healthy relationships. Family Services will accomplish this mission through direct services, advocacy,…
Our mission is to reduce trauma and enhance healing by providing advocacy, education and outreach.
Amarillo area casa advocates for abused and neglected children through support and training of court appointed volunteers
The cac provides intervention services for children who are victims of severe abuse and advocacy services to their non offending caregivers. this includes forensic interviews, medical exams, therapy, and prevention education. the cac also…
To provide family and individual counseling
Child Advocacy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity Center for the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is Machado Farm Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF KENDALL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BORDERLAND RAINBOW CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds MOLLY'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LEE & BEULAH MOOR CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds CASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE FOR BOYS INC ↗
- Who funds TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CARING CHILDREN CLOTHING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS EXCEL EL PASO INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF EL PASO INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ENDEAVORS INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF A VETERAN NFP ↗
- Who funds THE INNER TRUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MACHADO FARM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: W and H Thomas Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Paso del Norte Community Foundation · United Way of Martin County Inc · El Paso Community Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Pedersen Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jesus House of Hope Inc — 3% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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